Missed Opportunities

I have had the same email address since 1995. I have been buying things online since that was available. These facts mean that my email address is on every spam list in the world, and that every merchant I’ve ever bought anything from as well as all the spammers and scammers send me at least one and often more than one email every day.

Multiple levels of filters and unsubscribe links mean that my morning inbox is only full, not bursting, but even so, I wind up just selecting everything and tossing it into the trash. I love the subject lines that tell me not to miss out on this opportunity, which is almost gone. I feel encouraged by them, and press delete even faster.

Yep, I Still Hate Your Framework

I have been writing a couple of mobile apps in Flutter for the past few months, and as I neared feature-complete ready-for-internal-beta I started getting frustrated by the framework’s limitations with the app stores. The build system won’t build an artifact that the Google Play Store will accept come August, and the iOS build has problems, too. I gave up and started working on a simple web game using flutter_web, only to find that it wouldn’t let me make a user interface that didn’t suck for typing. So, fine. I’m going back to Java. At least I can build and release a Java application that works right.